Jan Baumer has joined Folio Literary Management as an agent. She was formerly acquisitions editor at Harper One. Tara Schlesinger has joined Gallery as senior digital marketing manager. She was previously a digital marketing and publicity specialist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Awards A 13-title Booker International longlist was announced, with the actual nominations to be released on April 9. The London Book Fair International Excellence Awards were presented across 18 categories. The Academy of Arts and Letters is presenting awards in literature to 17 writers this year. Among them: Lydia Millet gets an award of merit; Robert Alter, Marilyn Chin, Chris […]
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At Flatiron Books, Bryn Clark has been promoted to senior associate editor. In the publicity department, Amelia Possanza moves up to assistant director of publicity; and Patricia Cave and Kimberly Escobar have both been promoted to senior publicist. Erin Gordon has been promoted to senior designer, and Kelly Gatesman has been promoted to associate designer. Sarah Melnyk has been promoted to assistant director of publicity, St. Martin’s/Minotaur. Jessica Preeg and Jessica Zimmerman both become assistant director of publicity, St. Martin’s Press. At Chronicle Books, Samantha Steele has been promoted to national accounts manager; Morgan Amer becomes sales manager; and Kathleen Miller moves […]
Picks: Book Expo Buzz Panels, April Indie Next List
Book Expo has named the books to be featured during the three annual Editors’ Buzz panels at this year’s show. The adult panel includes two memoirs (Jones and Wiener) and three debut novels (Russell, Prescott and Reid). Adult How We Fight for Our Lives, by Saeed Jones (Simon & Schuster) Uncanny Valley, by Anna Wiener (MCD/FSG) My Dark Vanessa, by Kate Elizabeth Russell (William Morrow) The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott (Knopf) Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid (Putnam) The Warehouse, by Rob Hart (Crown) Young Adult Frankly in Love, by David Yoon, (Penguin Children’s) The Grace Year, […]
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Sasha Quinton joins Barnes & Noble as vp, general merchandise manager, bookstore, reporting to chief merchandising officer Tim Mantel. She has been at Readerlink (and Levy) since 2010, most recently as svp, marketing and procurement. At B&N she will lead publisher relations, adult trade books and newsstand retailing, as well as business partnership objectives and strategies. Sam Bennett joined the company last month as vp, marketing. She was director of brand marketing at Best Buy. Sonali Fry will join the Random House Children’s, as vp, publishing director for classic brands and preschool on March 29. She was most recently most […]
People: Holt’s EIC Comes From Within
Following the departure of Gillian Blake for Crown Trade in early December, new Holt publisher Ben Schrank has filled the editor-in-chief position from within the company. Executive editor Serena Jones is being promoted to editor in chief. Metropolitan Books publisher and co-founder Sara Bershtel moves up to senior vice president (with Maggie Richards being named a vice president). Schrank notes the Elton John autobiography releases this fall, with the publisher confirming a worldwide publication date of October 15. Publishing director at Penguin Press UK Helen Conford will move to Profile Books in May, where she will take over from Andrew […]
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Tessa Woodward has been promoted to executive editor at William Morrow/Avon. At Little, Brown: Alexandra Hoopes has been promoted to assistant editor; Lucy Kim is now art director and Tim Harrington is senior art director; Katharine Myers moves up to director of publicity, Lena Khidritskaya Little becomes associate director of publicity and Alyssa Persons is publicist; and Ashley Marudas is promoted to senior marketing manager. Kathryn Taussig will be promoted to publishing director at Bookouture as of April 23, reporting to Jenny Geras, responsible for recruiting and leading their recently-announced team that will focus on commercial fiction for the US market. […]